Fons Laan

Scientific Developer at KNAW International Institute of Social History
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(386) 825-5501
Location
NL
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German Limited working proficiency

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Experience

    • Scientific Developer
      • 2014 - Present

      I work for the LINKS and HSN projects of prof dr Kees Mandemakers, see: http://www.iisg.nl/hsn/projects/links.html and https://socialhistory.org/en/hsn/index My LINKS work involves cleaning and normalizing genealogy data and finding matches between millions of birth, marriage and death certificates. I do this with Java, MySQL and Python; https://github.com/IISH/links For the HSN I created a mail management web application, made with Python/Django and Javascript (Qooxdoo); https://github.com/IISH/hsn-mailenbeheer/tree/fons Show less

    • Netherlands
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scientific Programmmer
      • 2009 - 2014

      Software development for several projects in the field of Information Retrieval. Software created with Linux, Python/Django, Javascript frameworks, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Perl. For the DutchSemCor project, see: http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/cltl/dutchsemcor/ Software development for several projects in the field of Information Retrieval. Software created with Linux, Python/Django, Javascript frameworks, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Perl. For the DutchSemCor project, see: http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/cltl/dutchsemcor/

    • Netherlands
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scientific Programmer
      • 2005 - 2009

      NWO CATCH/SCRATCH project. Image processing and software engineering for historical document analysis. Software created with Linux, Java, Python/Django, C++/Qt4, XML/XQuery. See: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/nwo-catch-scratch/index_english.html NWO CATCH/SCRATCH project. Image processing and software engineering for historical document analysis. Software created with Linux, Java, Python/Django, C++/Qt4, XML/XQuery. See: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/nwo-catch-scratch/index_english.html

    • Netherlands
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • 2002 - 2005

      Software (Matlab, C, Intel IPP, Qt) and firmware (C) for high-speed framing camera, for ultra-sound research. See http://www.brandaris128.nl. Software (Matlab, C, Intel IPP, Qt) and firmware (C) for high-speed framing camera, for ultra-sound research. See http://www.brandaris128.nl.

    • Post-doc
      • 1999 - 2002

      KNAW Programme Image Analysis and Visualization. Applications with and C/C++ extension modules for AVS/Express data visualization. KNAW Programme Image Analysis and Visualization. Applications with and C/C++ extension modules for AVS/Express data visualization.

    • Netherlands
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Freelance Software Developer
      • 1991 - 1992

      Software for moiré-based corneal topographer (keratometer). Image demodulation with 2D discrete Fourier transform. Software in C, plus Numerical Recipes. Software for moiré-based corneal topographer (keratometer). Image demodulation with 2D discrete Fourier transform. Software in C, plus Numerical Recipes.

    • Netherlands
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scientific Investigator
      • 1985 - 1986

      Computer-aided 3-D reconstruction of embryonic rat hearts from microscopic sections. Software in FORTRAN. Hardware: DEC computer, imaging hardware, camera, microscope. Computer-aided 3-D reconstruction of embryonic rat hearts from microscopic sections. Software in FORTRAN. Hardware: DEC computer, imaging hardware, camera, microscope.

    • Scientific Programmer
      • 1983 - 1985

      Software for the graphical representation of neuronal dendritic trees, as projections and in stereo-3D. And bi-variate regression analysis for encephalization theories. Software in VAX-FORTRAN. Software for the graphical representation of neuronal dendritic trees, as projections and in stereo-3D. And bi-variate regression analysis for encephalization theories. Software in VAX-FORTRAN.

    • Netherlands
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Internship
      • 1971 - 1972

    • Netherlands
    • Aviation & Aerospace
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Internships
      • 1971 - 1972

      Simulating rocket launch with civilian payload on EAI 680 analog/hybrid computer. (This cabinet-size analog computer can still be admired in the computer museum of the University of Amsterdam.) Simulating rocket launch with civilian payload on EAI 680 analog/hybrid computer. (This cabinet-size analog computer can still be admired in the computer museum of the University of Amsterdam.)

Education

  • Utrecht University
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Binocular vision
  • University of Amsterdam
    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine
    1974 - 1983
  • Haarlem Business School
    ing, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
    1968 - 1973

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